Best PHP RESTful Micro Frameworks

What are Micro Frameworks?

Before discussing which are the “Best PHP RESTful Micro Frameworks” let begin with the concept of micro-framework. Micro Frameworks is a term used to represent a small set of code and modules that are designed to do only basic tasks and functionality and at the same time they are highly extensible.These frameworks comes with less components than full stack framework but they have several libraries and patterns which are required to make a project of good quality and scalable.Don’t think that “micro” represent for small projects, it only means “Framework bundled with less components”.

Best PHP RESTful Micro Frameworks

1. Silex

One of the fastest micro-framework

Built on top of Symphony components

Great documentation and community support

Good for large projects

Follows Symfony2 HTTP conditions

Automated functional tests

2. Slim

Super fast and extremely light-weight

Good documentation

Great community

Lots of tutorials on YouTube and on other websites

Lazy loading with 3rd party implementation

Bundled with middleware, caching, encryption of cookies

3. Lumen

Zero configuration

Excellent documentation

Ultra-fast micro framework

Good 3rd party support

Easily upgradable to laravel

Bundled with encryption, middleware, unit testing, caching,queuing and sql-nosql support

4. Phalcon

Blazing fast

Provides very high performance

Written in C-language

Compiled for better performance

Can handle more requests per second

5.Bullet PHP

Little learning

Unlimited flexibility

Flexible routing

Nested closure routing system

That’s all for today folks, try one of the above frameworks and do share your experience with me.